ai, labor
https://www.axios.com/2026/04/26/ai-cost-human-workers
so this will seem absurd if you are bought into the propaganda that the purpose of these technologies is to "cut costs" but makes perfect sense if you understand that the real pitch is that you don't have to deal with workers who have lives, might unionize, are not guaranteed to be obedient and docile.
it makes sense from the perspective of redirecting the current capital to labor flow of resources towards one that is capital to capital. paying the same amount of money, maybe even more, that goes to your friends at davos and aspen rather than filthy working programmers might be worth it.
ai, labor
anyway, if you gave me $20,000 and a month and a half I could also probably write you an unoptimized C compiler. but you will have to deal with me, my humanity, my filth, and maybe that's too much to ask.
